The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold! First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called “The Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.

ジョン・グリーンが描くのは、単なる若者の彷徨ではなく、魂の深淵に触れる哲学的探求です。主人公が追う「大いなる可能性」と、少女アラスカの「苦悩の迷宮」。二人の邂逅は、生と死、そして赦しという普遍的な問いを読者に突きつけます。喪失を言葉で再構築していく緻密な心理描写は、文学としての気高い美しさを放っています。 映像版は周囲の視点を補完し、物語を立体的に広げる役割を果たしましたが、独白に宿る静謐な思索と「言葉の魔法」は、やはり原作でこそ輝きます。映像が持つ鮮烈な実在感と、書物の中に広がる無限の想像力。両メディアを往復することで、アラスカという存在の核心へより深く辿り着けるはずです。